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Demosthenes, Orations, 25.16

nan But the laws desire what is just and honorable and salutary; they seek for it, and when they find it, they set it forth as a general commandment, equal and identical for all. The law is that which all men ought to obey for many reasons, but above all because every law is an invention and gift of the gods, a tenet of wise men, a corrective of errors voluntary and involuntary, and a general covenant of the whole State, in accordance with which all men in that State ought to regulate their lives.

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

4 results
1. Sophocles, Antigone, 369-370, 450-455, 368 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
2. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 864-870, 863 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
3. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 3.45 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
4. Demosthenes, Orations, 24.143, 25.15, 25.25-25.28, 25.54

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
abuse,in religious terms	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 187
abuse,nonreligious	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 186, 187
authenticity	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 184, 186, 187
endeixis	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 186
furies	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 196
homicide,court of the areopagus in athens	Fletcher (2012), Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama, 107
language,laws	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 187
language,legislation	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 196
law,athenian.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 181
miaros (pollution,impurity),aristogiton	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 187
myth	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 196
mytilenean debate	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 181
orphism	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 196
parents,maltreatment of	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 196
punishment.,as deterrence.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 181
punishment.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 181
rhetorical conventions,assembly speeches	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 186
rhetorical conventions,avoidance of gods	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 196
style	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 184, 186, 187
supporting speakers'	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 186
thucydides	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 181
underworld	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 196